This is Exercise #8 of the twenty-five Exercises in Song for Christmas 2008. It's also part of the full Exercises in Song cycle being released on this site.
"Haiku " originally appeared on p139 of Raymond Queneau's Exercices de Style in the 1998 Calderbook translation.
To be sung to the tune of "Show Me The Way To Go Home". More information here.
Exercises in Song 2008: #8
Show me the way home:
I'm tired, having drunk my fill
Of some noxious spring.
Now, feeling quite ill,
I search all summer in vain;
Can't find home at all.
Yet my hopes still rise / Like distant song, to the skies
As the dead leaves fall.
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